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AN EXTRAORDINARY COLLABORATION:
A FUSION OF ART FORMS
Street Talk Suite Talk (STST) stands at the crossroads
of multiple art forms. This evening-length original work
fuses rap/spoken word, contemporary dance, and music
for violin. With poetry created by young rappers and
spoken word artists, music that stems from a classical
tradition, and the unique choreography of Anna Myer,
STST creates a new language of expression dedicated to
fostering social change through art. STST demonstrates
that social change occurs when many people change
themselves by seeing the world through the eyes of “the
other”. The work encourages a spirit of mutual respect
and understanding.
The Street Talk Suite Talk Project has been created
through a collaborative effort that brings together individuals from several different backgrounds and art disciplines, all working to craft a common vision and bring
it to life.
Anna Myer and the artists from STST came together to
work as one and are a good example of how artistic collaboration can affect a diverse group of people.
• Dancers: Karina Davis, Joe Gonzalez, Jeremy Revilock-Frost, Marissa Molinar, Hieu Nguyen, Nina
Saraceno, and Henoch Spinola
• Rappers: Anthony Marshal and Lynn Harris
• Spoken Word Artists: TiElla Grimes and Tu Phan
• With spoken word artists, Adam Gottlieb and Nova
Venerable, featured in Louder Than a Bomb documentary.
This is a unique and extraordinary combination of people with diverse approaches to art. The result is an original multidisciplinary work that speaks to people from
many backgrounds and from many parts of the community. Our approach is rooted in the belief that no
cultural, musical, or choreographic styles are mutually
exclusive.
Follow these links to YouTube to watch videos of STST
in action:
http://youtu.be/IHWXknMuwgI
http://youtu.be/LzT0Wj2381c
• Choreographer Anna Myer of Anna Myer and Dancers, a critically acclaimed contemporary dance company located in Cambridge, MA
• Composer Jakov Jakoulov and violinist Mark Berger
Louder than a Bomb:
http://www.siskeljacobs.com/louder-than-a-bomb.php
For information about Street Talk Suite Talk
or about bringing the program to your community,
call 617.513.9314 or visit: www.annamyeranddancers.org
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT
The Street Talk Suite Talk Project began as Street Talk
Suite Talk (STST) , a dance piece which started as one
double duet: two young male rappers and a male and
female dancer, which premiered at APAP in New York
City in January of 2008. From that one performance the
company was invited to perform abroad and the piece
has grown into a full-length work in two Acts.
Now, The Street Talk Suite Talk Project is flexible in execution
and can adapt to many settings and include integration
of different poets as well as workshops for dancers and
poets of all ages. This results in a different Street Talk Suite
Talk each time but with the same outcome as the original
duet.: intergation and communication between different
art forms and different people.
• Street Talk Suite Talk, Act I had its full-length premiere
in November 2008 at Boston’s historic Strand Theater.
Presented by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s Office.,
the performance was a major critical and popular success,
and drew a large and diverse audience.
• In the fall of 2009, AMD was invited to perform STST at
the Fringe Festival in Scotland.
• STST, ACT II, extended Street Talk Suite Talk into
a 90-minute Rap Opera. In contrast to Act I, which
illuminates what Boston Globe critic Thea Singer called:
“urban nightmares,” Act II focuses on hope, change,
growth, and “being gold.”
• STST, the complete rap opera in 2 acts, premiered
in Boston in May 2010. Chorus led by S. D. Wyner
performed during finale.
• In 2011, with funding from numerous grants and
donors, AMD brought the project to school children
of Boston’s inner city, Dorchester, and Cambridge
in STST: Mixing up the Neighborhoods. AMD bussed
students from economically, culturaly, and racially diverse
neighborhoods to see Act I and Act II in two different
locations (ICA and Roxbury Center for Arts). Between
the two performances, AMD also taught poetry and
dance workshops, which integrated the dance and poetry
of students from different neighborhoods, schools, and
backgrounds. The participants of the dance workshop
performed at the ICA following the Anna Myer and
Dancers STST performance.
Since November 2008, Street Talk Suite Talk has been
presented at numerous Boston events, in New York
City, throughout the NE, and abroad. The company has
been performing full works in theaters and excerpts at
community venues–colleges, youth centers, anti-violence
seminars, dance festivals, gallery openings, etc.
Currently, Anna Myer And Dancers and
The Street Talk, Suite Talk Project, are
collaborating with Youth Link, a program
run by the North American Family
Institute (NAFI). You can view more
about Youth Link on YouTube here: http://youtu.be/
ikSFytbSdf4 and http://vimeo.com/12561891
The STST Project forges bonds between disparate
populations on both sides of the proscenium. By combining
artistic traditions, STST challenges its performers
and touches a broad audience, and we hope to see it
performed around the U.S. and internationally.
For more information, please contact us. We are eager to discuss
bringing Street Talk Suite Talk to your community.
For information about Street Talk Suite Talk
or about bringing the program to your community,
call 617.513.9314 or visit: www.annamyeranddancers.org
annamyerdancers@gmail.com
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WORKSHOPS AND PERFORMANCES
The Street Talk Suite Talk Project can be presented in different formats. We are happy to design a program that
best fits the needs of your theater and community.
MOVE THE WORD WORKSHOPS:
In our five day workshops, we guide participants
through a series of writing and movement challenges
similar to those we used to create Street Talk Suite Talk.
The workshops help participants develop critical skills
for collaboration, increasing their ability to communicate about art and community. Our company creates
an environment that is simultaneously nurturing and demanding. Respect for multiple viewpoints, cultures, and
artistic styles is central to our company’s philosophy and
we find this value to be quite contagious!
The workshops are led by the company’s poets and
dancers, promoting Myer’s strong belief that artists
should teach as a way to develop a stronger understanding of their own craft, richer connections to their
audience, and a sustainable lifestyle for supporting their
art. The participants are taught how to create their own
vocabulary and choreographic language by exploring
relevant issues in their own lives and neighborhoods.
The spoken word material serves as the inspiration for
creating solo dance pieces by the dancers in the movement workshop. The resulting collaborative work is performed at the end of the workshop.
Participants who will be given subject matter to write
about, their poetry will be given to dancer to make
dances from. The full cast of STST will travel to location
for a 3-4 day workshop to integrate the local poets and
dancers into STST culminating in a performance(s).
INTEGRATION, MIXING UP
THE NEIGHBORHOODS
Working with local arts and educational organizations,
Anna Myer and Dancers will bus students from economically, culturally, and racially diverse neighborhoods
to see Act I and Act II in two different locations. The
students will be bused into each others neighborhoods’
theaters/venues (to see where and how others live).
Between the two performances, there is an option to
include Move The Word workshop, which will integrate
the dance and poetry of students from different neighborhoods, schools and backgrounds.
STST: Mixing Up the Neighborhoods raises awareness
of ethnic and economic segregation by empowering
youth of different backgrounds to experience, under
one roof, a powerful, collaborative work of art that is
integrated within itself. Teaching by example is something that works uniquely well in The STST Project. First
the students will view the piece that inspired the project
and then with the help of facilitated discussions, lesson
plans, and a five day workshop, these same youth are
encouraged to address their own issues through artistic
collaboration.
INTEGRATION OF LOCAL POETS
(into STST) WORKSHOP / PERFORMANCE:
Anna Myer and a poet (cast of STST) will work with
local poets/rappers and dancers in a workshop format.
For information about Street Talk Suite Talk
or about bringing the program to your community,
call 617.513.9314 or visit: www.annamyeranddancers.org
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WORKSHOPS AND PERFORMANCES
PERFORMANCE ONLY:
Performances of STST (full length rap/spoken word opera) can be performed in many different settings: theaters, gyms, ball rooms, outside festivals etc.
Act I, consists of ten sections that mix violin, rap/spoken
word, and dance. These seemingly unmixable art forms
are fused together by the artists’ common interest in
expressing the challenges of urban living in a world that
is often fragmented and still racially separated and distrustful.
Act II, brings the vision of hope and change to today’s
still-troubled streets. Dancers interpret the poets’
words about what it means to “be gold” – to develop
the inner strength and personal growth to rise above
the circumstances of life in the inner city.
We can present the Rap Opera as a:
55 minute, single act production
90 minute, two act production
90 minute, two act production with community workshop
The company offers a Q and A session following each
the performance.
Master Classes: ballet, modern dance, jazz and yoga can
be provided upon request.
Class Room Talks: A single poet can give talks in a
school setting.
Choruses from different parts of the city can partake
in the finale of STST by singing.
The Street Talk Suite Talk Project gives voice to underrepresented populations
in every locality; it has been a tremendous success so far, and can be a
mechanism for change in your community.
For more information, please contact us.
We are eager to discuss bringing Street Talk Suite Talk to your community.
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For information about Street Talk Suite Talk
or about bringing the program to your community,
call 617.513.9314 or visit: www.annamyeranddancers.org
annamyerdancers@gmail.com
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ABOUT THE COLLABORATORS
ANNA MYER AND DANCERS
Since its founding in 1992, Anna Myer and Dancers (AMD) has performed Anna Myer’s innovative choreography
to a steadily growing audience throughout the Northeast, most notably in Boston, New York City, and also at the
2009 Fringe Festival in Scotland, and to the acclaim of some of the country’s most prominent dance critics. Myer’s
unique language of movement is a fusion of her classical, modern, and postmodern background. Her dances are
emotionally charged and infused with a keen formal intelligence. Myer had a feature article in the Sunday New
York Times Arts and Leisure section in 1999. Funding for AMD has been provided by: Massachusetts Cultural
Council, Cambridge Arts Council, The Foley Hoag Foundation, Turner Family Foundation, and New England Foundation for the Arts. AMD has been presented by Dance Umbrella’s Boston Moves (1999), Fleet Bank Celebrity
Series (2003), Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (2002, 2003), and CRASHarts at the Institute of Contemporary Art
in Boston. The company performed at the 2005 Performing Arts Exchange Conference in Memphis TN. In 2010
Myer was a finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council artist Fellowship, and in 2011, AMD received a Choreographic Fellowship from the Boston Dance Alliance.
Anna Myer began her dance training in 1962 with Esther
Brooks, at the Cambridge School of Ballet, on a Ford
Foundation Scholarship. After receiving scholarships
from the Joffrey Ballet, The School of American Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre, Myer joined the Boston Ballet, and later studied and performed with Ane
Roje. Myer also performed in works by contemporary
choreographers such as Zeve Cohen, Caitlin Corbett,
Marguerite Mathews, and Pauline Koner. In 1992, Myer
founded Anna Myer and Dancers (AMD), a modern
dance company, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
and pianist. He is the author of three ballets, five concertos, five string quartets, scores for over 20 theatrical, TV and cinema productions, as well as numerous
symphonic, chamber, and choral works. In recent years
his work has been presented by, among others, the
London’s New European Strings Orchestra, the Boston
Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s “Future
Classics” Series, Boston Symphony Chamber Concerts,
the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and the New England String Ensemble.
Myer has a long history of artistic collaboration, using live
music, original scores, as well as incorporating peoples
of various ages and backgrounds. Myer came together
with neon sculptors Alejandro and Moira Sin to create Penumbra (2007). All At Once (2005), conducted
by Susan Davenny Wyner, featured 9 dancers, 12 musicians, and has been performed by various ensembles
including the Julliard Student Ensemble.
Jakoulov holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from Boston
University, and among his many awards are six Annual
Awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, and membership in the National
Honor Music Society. His composition Black Snow was
included on a CD that was chosen as one of the “Top
Five Classical Recordings of 1999” by Fanfare Magazine.
Composer Jakov Jakoulov was born in Moscow, where
he studied in Gnesin Music Academy and Moscow Conservatory as pianist and composer. In 1987 Jakoulov left
Moscow to begin to work in Europe, and moved to Boston in 1990.
Since beginning his professional career at age twelve, he
has gained considerable experience as both composer
Mark Berger, violinist and violist, has performed with
many of the elite ensembles of the Boston area, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the Boston Modern
Orchestra Project, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Boston, Emmanuel Music, Boston Musica Viva and ALEA
III Contemporary Music Ensemble. An avid chamber
musician, he is a founding member of the Worcester
Chamber Music Society and Music at Eden’s Edge, and
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has performed as a guest artist with QX and the Lydian String Quartets. Mr. Berger has participated in major summer music festivals including the Kneisel Hall
Chamber Music Festival and the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music Center, where he was in
residence for two summers as a member of the New
Fromm Players, a chamber ensemble dedicated to the
performance of new music. In addition to his work as a
performer, Mr. Berger is also a composer, and his works
have been commissioned and performed by many leading contemporary music ensembles. Mr. Berger has received degrees from Boston University, and is currently
a PhD candidate at Brandeis University.
RAPPERS
New Legends is made up of L-Ski, also known as Lynn
Harris, who was born in Boston and raised in Grove
Hall and Young Cyde, also known as Anthony Marshall,
who was born and raised in Dorchester. Both have used
rap as a way to overcome the experience of living in
a community where shootings, drug dealers, and gang
members are common. They started rapping at age ten
and in their teens formed the rap group New Legends.
Their goal is to be signed to a major record label while
they are still teenagers.
SPOKEN WORD ARTISTS
Adam Gottlieb is a twenty-one-year-old poet/creator/
performer currently studying poetry and education at
Hampshire College. He has been performing for seven
years throughout festivals, poetry slams, open mics, and
other events in his hometown Chicago and well beyond.
He tries his best to use creativity and teaching in the
service of humanity. He believes whole-heartedly that
artists, poets, dreamers, and creators of all kinds will be
the leaders of the coming revolution, and the pioneers
of a new world in which love, peace, and justice will
reign supreme.
TiElla Grimes is a recent graduate of Newbury College,
where she obtained her Bachelors in Communication.
She is a member of the Women of Color Roundtable in
Roxbury where she studies ways to reduce HIV/AIDS in
women of African descent. TiElla was on the Advisory
Board for the Girls Grant-making Gathering, which is a
part of the Women’s Funding Network Annual Conference. TiElla was also on the committee for Raising
Women’s Voices, a national conference that addresses
issues and disparities surrounding women and health
care. TiElla is a graduate of the YWCA Boston’s Youth
Voice Collaborative. Currently she works full time at the
YWCA Boston and part time at the Boston Women’s
Fund as a Young Sister for Justice in Philanthropy. She
often volunteers at community events as a spoken word
performer.
Tu Phan, inspired by hip hop, spoken word, and literature, has been writing poetry for about three years. His
writing focuses on socioeconomic, environmental, political, and spiritual concepts, drawn both from life and
people’s speech and from his readings in satire, history,
and spiritual literature. Tu’s spoken word poetry aims to
help people change their destructive habits. He lives in
Dorchester and is attending Northeastern University.
For information about Street Talk Suite Talk
or about bringing the program to your community,
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Novana Venerable was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. She started writing when introduced to her mentor,
Peter Kahn, who is head of the Spoken Work Club and
Slam Team. Through working with Peter Kahn, she has
had the opportunity to teach high school English classes
and lead poetry writing workshops. In high school, Nova
participated in Louder Than A Bomb and won an all expense paid trip to New York CIty her sophomore year
to compete in Brave New Voices. From there, she was
filmed for a documentary called Louder Than A Bomb
which is currently premiering around the country. Nova
spent her first year in college at Illinois State University
and transferred to Smith College for her second year
where she is majoring in Psychology and double majoring in Spanish. Nova hopes to become a behavioral analyst for the FBI and to continue helping out with Louder
Than A Bomb as well as teaching workshops to young
students.
THE DANCERS
Karina Davis was first inspired by tap dancer Gregory
Hines, and started hoofing at Ruth Williams Dance
Studio in Harlem, NY. Davis later trained in the Alvin
Ailey School’s Junior Division, where she studied forms
of dance ranging from West African to classical ballet.
While attending Williams College, she solidified a love
affair with hip-hop by joining the resident dance troupe,
Nothin’ But Cuties, and was elected president for the
2004-2005 season. In addition to performing student
choreography, she maintained her connections to the
dance world by studying forms of modern technique
under the tutelage of Sandra Burton and Holly Silva and
participating in workshops led by performers such as
Ron K. Brown, Philadanco, HT Chen & Dancers, and
Delfos Danza Contemporanea.
Joe Gonzalez graduated from the Boston Arts
Academy and is currently a dance major at the Boston
Conservatory. Joe has participated in many summer
programs such as the Boston Conservatory and
American Dance Festival. He has attended master
classes with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre,
Ronald K. Brown, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Sean
Curran, Nathan Trice, Pedro Ruiz, Jr., and Jose Limon
Dance Company. Outside of school he has broadened
his horizons and enjoys musical theater, hip hop, tap,
and jazz.
Jeremy Revilock-Frost is a graduate of the University
of Hartford’s Hartt School with a BFA in Dance
Performance. While at Hartt she performed soloist
roles in La Bayadere, Guernsey Fields, and Martha
Graham’s Steps in the Street. She began her dance
training in Atlanta, Georgia and then furthered her
studies in Portsmouth, New Hampshire under the
direction of Mihailo Djuric and Susan Duffy. She danced
with Ballet New England and Ballet Theatre Workshop
performing principal roles in both classical ballets and
Djuric’s contemporary pieces. Jeremy-Ruth also trained
at the Boston Ballet School and studied at the Martha
Graham School in NYC on scholarship. She has danced
professionally with Northern Ballet Theatre and Virginia
Ballet Theatre. She is on faculty at the Northeast School
of Ballet and Walker’s Dance.
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Marissa Molinar comes from a family of Mexican
Folkloric dancers, and started learning folklorico from her
mother at an early age while growing up in Texas. After
moving to Boston and its diverse dance scene, Marissa
became enthralled with bharatanatyam, a South Indian
dance form, and began training with Aparna Sindhoor.
Marissa was introduced to modern dance in high school,
studying and performing with Daniel McCusker. After
a dance hiatus while earning a degree in Environmental
Science from Brown University, Marissa returned to
dance and has been performing with many companies
and choreographers in the Boston area. Marissa recently
joined the fantastic office of Boston Dance Alliance, and
she is honored to be performing with the talented crew
of Anna Myer And Dancers.
Hieu Nguyen graduated from Boston University, where
he was a member of the Dance Theatre Group for two
years. After college, Hieu attended the New England
School of Law while continuing his dance training,
primarily with Anna Myer. Hieu currently works as
an attorney specializing in family law and domestic
violence prevention. When he is not in the office,
Hieu choreographs and consults for several awardwinning programs such as the University of Delaware
and Shenendehowa High School from Clifton Park,
New York. Hieu also adjudicates movement all over the
country to help students and programs reach higher
standards of excellence. Hieu has been dancing with
Anna Myer for two years and is thrilled to be a part of
such an amazing project!
Nina Saraceno began her dance training at a four year
old at the Ana Roje School of Ballet in Boston, MA, also
dancing as a fourth generation Isadora Duncan dancer.
She danced with the Boston Dance Company during
the late 1990s and joined Anna Myer and Dancers in
2003. She has also danced with Ariel Rifka Dance in
New York and Interweave Dance Theatre of Boulder,
CO. She has performed works by George Balanchine,
José Limón, Robert Battle, Damian Woetzel and Marius
Petipa, among others. Nina holds a Bachelors degree
from Skidmore College in Psychology and Dance and a
certification from the San Francisco School of Massage.
Henoch Spinola is a native of Cape Verde Islands. He
began his classical training with Jose Mateo’s Ballet Theatre, graduating from the Young Dancers Program in
2006, to become a full company member in 2007. He
spent one year at the Hartt School, where he danced
with Full Force Dance Company, a local contemporary
dance company run by Katie Stevenson-Nolet. Henoch
has also received training in traditional Malian dance
with Sedo Coulibaly of Mali and modern technique with
Lacina Coulibaly of Burkina Faso. In 2010, Henoch left
Jose Mateo’s company to dance with Teatrul de Sibiu
of Romania for one season. He has since returned to
Boston and has the pleasure of working with Marjorie Folkman, former dancer of the Mark Morris Dance
Company.
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VOICES OF THE PARTICIPANTS
“I want the audience to feel the
impact of this collaboration in what
we are saying about our world. I
want them to not only hear what
we say but to feel and see what
we say through the music and the
dance.”
– Anna Myer, Choreographer
“Rap must be included in the context of our musical culture. Every
art has the essence of expression,
it doesn’t matter whether it’s rap
or symphony or ballet. It’s the quality of how we present it and how
we can use it. And it’s absolutely
fresh and new.”
– Jakov Jakoulov, Composer
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“We’re trying to get heard. This
project will let people hear about
us more. I hope people will realize:
‘Yeah, these are young teenagers
trying to do something good, not
doing bad.’ I want the audience to
just be blown away–to say ‘wow!’”
– Lynn Harris, Rapper
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WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING
“‘Don’t you see?’ the eclectic group seem to be saying. Urban nightmares—betrayal, retaliation, estrangement, confinement—such violence steals all of our
lives. The message reverberates.”
– Thea Singer, The Boston Globe
“Anna Myer may be the gutsiest choreographer on
either side of the Charles River these days. She’s got
classicism in her bones yet anything but on her mind:
Genre mixing, role reversals, a reach-across-the aisle
“yes we can” aesthetic—those are the building blocks
of Street Talk Suite Talk.”
– Thea Singer, The Boston Globe
“[Anna] Myer seems to look at dance—and life—from
a slightly wry but affectionate distance. And what she
sees becomes transformed into odd yet affecting imagery ... Ms. Myer is a master weaver, smoothly blending ages and degrees of professionalism in intricately
plotted yet simple-seeming dance.”
– Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
“Jakoulov is a composer with something urgent to say
and an original language to say it in.”
– The Berkshire Eagle
“Jakov Jakoulov’s improvisation … brought the house
down with its powerful tone …”
– Richard Dyer, Boston Globe
“Jakov Jakoulov’s Gypsy Requiem … proved to be a
highly original composition with a strong emotional
impact.”
– Olin Chism, Dallas Morning News
“Anna Myer has proven herself to be a master choreographer who is always full of surprises and new ideas.”
– Theodore Bale, Bay Windows
“Choreographer Anna Myer explores heaven on earth.
Originality punctuates Myer’s music-filled dance.”
– Debra Cash, Boston Globe
“In an evening rich in imagination and musicality, Myer
proved she is a creative force to be reckoned with.”
– Terry Byrne, Boston Globe
“Behind Anna Myer’s musical dances lies a formalist’s
brain and an iconoclast’s heart. ... Her style represents
a kind of classicism gone awry: one that concentrates
on geometry and tempos and purity of line but is lit by
a fierce energy and startling accents.”
– Thea Singer, Boston Globe
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THE BUZZ...
“It’s one thing to read about choreographer Anna Myer’s Street Talk Suite Talk Act I, a piece that wads together a
violinist, seven inner-city poet-rappers and 6 avant-garde dancers to explore a urban malaise. It’s quite another to
witness the thing yourself. On paper it sounds like an irritating eclectic, overly earnest tangle. But in action you’ll
see violinist Mark Berger (playing a restless, nerve-ratcheting score deigned by Moscow composer Jakov Jakoulov)
accompanying kids who spit lines about “slowly becoming a restless sleeper” while a mute Greek chorus of dancers
pantomimes their words with eerie organic-yet-robotic motions. And somehow, like chocolate covered bacon,
It just works.”
-Boston Phoenix, Critic Pick
Anna Myer may be the gutsiest choreographer on either side of the Charles River
these days. She’s got classicism in her bones yet anything but on her mind: Genre
mixing, role reversals, a reach-across-the aisle “yes we can” aesthetic - those are the
building blocks of ‘Street Talk Suite Talk.
-Thea Singer, The Boston Globe
[Anna] Myer seems to look at dance — and life — from a slightly wry but affectionate
distance. And what she sees becomes transformed into odd yet affecting imagery ...
Ms. Myer is a master weaver, smoothly blending ages and degrees of professionalism
in intricately plotted yet simple-seeming dance.
-Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
For information about Street Talk Suite Talk
or about bringing the program to your community,
call 617.513.9314 or visit: www.annamyeranddancers.org
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REVIEWS ABOUT THE PROJECT
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For information about Street Talk Suite Talk
or about bringing the program to your community,
call 617.513.9314 or visit: www.annamyeranddancers.org
annamyerdancers@gmail.com
For information about Street Talk Suite Talk
or about bringing the program to your community,
call 617.513.9314 or visit: www.annamyeranddancers.org
annamyerdancers@gmail.com